Friday, May 06, 2005
COULD I BE HAPPY WITH SOMETHING/SOMEONE ELSE?
Here's a short/feeble review of the Gang Of Four I saw the other night. I had designs to write a review of it for this dang on blog, but I'm lazy and somewhat busy at work. Here's an e-mail I just sent to everyone's personal fave, Ice.
i'm still not ready to talk about the gang of four show.
no... i was planning on writing a review of it on dark's blog but i think i'm slacking it away. it was sort of shocking. brah didn't like it, but everyone else thought it was great. the reason brah didn't like it was the singer is fucking insane. think michael stipe times ten mixed with some midnight oil and a little... Jim Carrey!? Yes. i think that describes it.
so that's why biggie couldn't handle it. but having said that, all but four songs were off of the first two albums... the played pretty much everything anyone wanted to hear, and some songs were fucking awesome as shit. 'Natural's Not In It', 'Return the Gift', 'At Home He's A Tourist', 'Anthrax', 'What We All Want'-- all these were awesome. Besides maybe a David Byrne show, I've never seen 1500 people going nuts like that at a show. On a lot of parts you couldn't hear the vocals because everyone was singing along.
The bass sound was awful, which was unfortunate because that's my favorite part of the band. The drums weren't quite as good as on the albums, but the dude looks like Frank Black now. The guitar and singing, however, were right on.
Really great show, but their stage presence was shocking to say the least even though I had already seen them on a bootleg video from the early 80's and knew the singer acted like a freak.
Here's a short/feeble review of the Gang Of Four I saw the other night. I had designs to write a review of it for this dang on blog, but I'm lazy and somewhat busy at work. Here's an e-mail I just sent to everyone's personal fave, Ice.
i'm still not ready to talk about the gang of four show.
no... i was planning on writing a review of it on dark's blog but i think i'm slacking it away. it was sort of shocking. brah didn't like it, but everyone else thought it was great. the reason brah didn't like it was the singer is fucking insane. think michael stipe times ten mixed with some midnight oil and a little... Jim Carrey!? Yes. i think that describes it.
so that's why biggie couldn't handle it. but having said that, all but four songs were off of the first two albums... the played pretty much everything anyone wanted to hear, and some songs were fucking awesome as shit. 'Natural's Not In It', 'Return the Gift', 'At Home He's A Tourist', 'Anthrax', 'What We All Want'-- all these were awesome. Besides maybe a David Byrne show, I've never seen 1500 people going nuts like that at a show. On a lot of parts you couldn't hear the vocals because everyone was singing along.
The bass sound was awful, which was unfortunate because that's my favorite part of the band. The drums weren't quite as good as on the albums, but the dude looks like Frank Black now. The guitar and singing, however, were right on.
Really great show, but their stage presence was shocking to say the least even though I had already seen them on a bootleg video from the early 80's and knew the singer acted like a freak.
